Description
Beeston or Beeston-next-Mileham, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 2 miles N of Fransham station on the G.E.R., and 6 1/2 NE of Swaffham. The parish is united for civil purposes with Little Bittering, and it has a post office under Swaffham ; money order and telegraph office, Litcham. Acreage, 2502 ; population of the civil parish, 469 ; of the ecclesiastical, 419. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £550 with an ancient moated rectory. The church is very good, and has a conspicuous tower and spire. It was built in the reign of Edward III. There is also a Wesleyan Reform chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
